Employer Partnerships & Student Placement Lead

We are looking for a confident and proactive Employer Partnerships & Student Placement Lead to build and sustain strong relationships with employers across various industries. This role focuses on transforming employer connections into meaningful career opportunities for our students. You will engage with companies in sectors such as medical billing, call centres, software houses, BPOs, and healthcare organisations to understand their hiring needs and connect them with job-ready students. The ideal candidate will be comfortable initiating contact with business owners and HR teams, managing ongoing communications, and supporting students through the interview and hiring process.

Key Responsibilities
- Identify and approach companies with current or recurring hiring needs that match our students’ skills.
- Conduct regular visits to employers, establishing rapport with business owners, HR managers, recruiters, and hiring decision-makers.
- Understand employer requirements in detail, including job roles, salary expectations, working conditions, and recruitment processes.
- Develop and nurture partnerships to create opportunities for interviews, internships, apprenticeships, and paid employment.
- Maintain an active pipeline of employers and continuously source new vacancies suitable for students.
- Collaborate closely with trainers to assess student skills and readiness, ensuring appropriate job matches.
- Coordinate interviews between students and employers, providing support throughout the recruitment process.
- Follow up with both employers and students to improve interview-to-hire conversion rates.
- Keep accurate records of employer contacts, vacancies, interviews, job offers, and successful placements.
- Collect and share employer feedback with trainers to enhance student preparation.
- Sustain long-term employer relationships to encourage repeat hiring.
- Identify new industries and companies that offer sustainable career opportunities for students.

Required Qualifications
- Experience in recruitment, business development, employer relations, field sales, corporate partnerships, or student placement.
- Confidence in approaching companies and engaging directly with decision-makers.
- Excellent communication, relationship-building, negotiation, and follow-up skills.
- Ability to interpret employer hiring needs and effectively match candidates from the student pool.
- Strong organizational skills to manage multiple employer relationships and placement processes simultaneously.
- Willingness to travel locally for company visits, meetings, and independent work.
- A proactive mindset focused on creating opportunities rather than waiting for inbound interest.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits
- Existing relationships or contacts within medical billing, healthcare, call centres, BPOs, software houses, IT companies, or similar hiring organisations will be advantageous.
- The role offers a hybrid remote working arrangement based in Lahore.
- Competitive monthly salary ranging from Rs50,000 to Rs200,000, commensurate with experience and performance.

Success in this role will be measured by tangible employment outcomes such as the number of active employer partnerships, new vacancies sourced, student interviews arranged, successful placements, placement-to-hire conversion rates, student retention after employment, and repeat hiring from existing employer partners. The ultimate goal is to build trusted employer relationships that consistently lead to interviews, job offers, and long-term career opportunities for our students.

Candidates should be prepared to present a practical 30-day employer outreach and placement plan during the selection process. This plan should outline strategies for identifying target employers, engaging HR teams and decision-makers, converting contacts into active hiring partnerships, and generating interviews and placements for students.